345 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 6:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-52, and 32 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-21 and 23, and 15 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|26 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 22, 24, 25 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 92 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
345 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
26 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 22, 24, 25 and 46 more.